7-8: Creating digital solutions: Creating an app or game

Use the context of apps and digital games development to learn text-based programming.

Year band(s)	7-8
Content type	Scope and sequence
Format	Web page
Core and overarching concepts	Abstraction, Specification (decomposing problems), Algorithms, Implementation (programming), Interactions (user design)
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s)	ACTDIP027 Define and decompose real-world problems taking into account functional requirements and economic, environmental, social, technical and usability constraints ACTDIP028 Design the user experience of a digital system, generating, evaluating and communicating alternative designs ACTDIP029 Design algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English, and trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors ACTDIP030 Implement and modify programs with user interfaces involving branching, iteration and functions in a general-purpose programming language ACTDIP031 Evaluate how student solutions and existing information systems meet needs, are innovative, and take account of future risks and sustainability
Technologies & Programming Languages	Python, JavaScript JS, other programming languages
Keywords	problem solving, digital solution, digital game, scope, sequence, scope and sequence
Organisation	ESA
Copyright	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.